diff --git a/lucene/contrib/benchmark/CHANGES.txt b/lucene/contrib/benchmark/CHANGES.txt
index 3ba25a272c0..ef785cf18fb 100644
--- a/lucene/contrib/benchmark/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/lucene/contrib/benchmark/CHANGES.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@ Lucene Benchmark Contrib Change Log
 
 The Benchmark contrib package contains code for benchmarking Lucene in a variety of ways.
 
+8/2/2010
+  LUCENE-2582: You can now specify the default codec to use for
+  writing new segments by adding default.codec = Pulsing (for
+  example), in the alg file.  (Mike McCandless)
+
 4/27/2010: WriteLineDocTask now supports multi-threading. Also, 
   StringBufferReader was renamed to StringBuilderReader and works on 
   StringBuilder now. In addition, LongToEnglishCountentSource starts from 0
diff --git a/lucene/contrib/benchmark/src/java/org/apache/lucene/benchmark/byTask/tasks/CreateIndexTask.java b/lucene/contrib/benchmark/src/java/org/apache/lucene/benchmark/byTask/tasks/CreateIndexTask.java
index 314eb004a48..cda7cd0fe72 100644
--- a/lucene/contrib/benchmark/src/java/org/apache/lucene/benchmark/byTask/tasks/CreateIndexTask.java
+++ b/lucene/contrib/benchmark/src/java/org/apache/lucene/benchmark/byTask/tasks/CreateIndexTask.java
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ import java.io.PrintStream;
  * org.apache.lucene.index.ConcurrentMergeScheduler),
  * concurrent.merge.scheduler.max.thread.count and
  * concurrent.merge.scheduler.max.merge.count (defaults per
- * ConcurrentMergeScheduler) </code>.
+ * ConcurrentMergeScheduler), default.codec </code>.
  * <p>
  * This task also supports a "writer.info.stream" property with the following
  * values: